Blog | Kristen Zaleski, PhD, LCSW

Celebrating Dr. Zaleski's 20 Year Career in Los Angeles

Voyage LA sat down with Dr. Zaleski to discuss her 20 year career career as a social worker in Los Angeles. http://voyagela.com/interview...

Can You Become More Empathetic?

If you’d like to be more empathetic, you can implement strategies to cultivate empathy, also known as “walking in someone’s shoes.”...

Dr. Zaleski is the Expert on Psychological effects of Tech Abuse and Sexual Violence.

As a teen, Leah Juliett sent nude photos to a boy who spent years requesting them. When the boy learned that Leah was gay and paying...

Hear Me Roar Podcast interview on Rape Culture

I had the pleasure of speaking with Sara Abdullah to discuss rape culture and rape myth. Listen here: https://www.sara-abdallah.com/hear-...

Trauma Survivorship in the Age of Covid-19: Permission to be OK exactly as you are

Origially published by the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work (found here: https://dworakpeck.usc.edu/blog/trauma-survivorship...

7 Tips for Decreasing Stress Caused by the Covid-19 Pandemic (Written for Courts Today Magazine)

If you are like thousands of other Americans right now, you aren’t sleeping well, your eating habits are thrown off, and you might be...

Revenge Porn in the US Military

In 2017, a new kind of sexual violation appeared in the United States military known as “revenge porn.” In March 2017, the Marines United...

Revenge porn is sexual violence, not millennial negligence (published by the Conversation)

U.S. Representative Katie Hill was the latest victim of a form of sexual abuse that’s become increasingly common: revenge porn. Intimate...

The Long Trauma of Revenge Porn

In case you haven’t been paying attention, the intersection of sexual violence and technology has become an invisible tidal wave heading...

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